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Box Office Star Records > Worldwide > Lifetime Specific Technical Role > Top Worldwide Directors
Top Grossing Director at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 101-200)BETA
See also: Top Domestic Directors - Top International Directors - Top Worldwide Art Directors - Top Worldwide Assistant Directors - Top Worldwide Associate Producers - Top Worldwide Casting Directors - Top Worldwide Cinematographers - Top Worldwide Co-Producers - Top Worldwide Composers - Top Worldwide Costume Designers - Top Worldwide Costume Supervisors - Top Worldwide Dialogue Editors - Top Worldwide Editors - Top Worldwide Executive Producers - Top Worldwide Make-up and Hair Designers - Top Worldwide Music Editors - Top Worldwide Music Supervisors - Top Worldwide Producers - Top Worldwide Production Designers - Top Worldwide Re-recording Mixers - Top Worldwide Screenwriters - Top Worldwide Set Decorators - Top Worldwide Set Designers - Top Worldwide Sound Designers - Top Worldwide Sound Editors - Top Worldwide Sound Effects Editors - Top Worldwide Sound Mixers - Top Worldwide Story Creators - Top Worldwide Stunt Coordinators - Top Worldwide Supervising Sound Editors - Top Worldwide Unit Production Managers - Top Worldwide Visual Effects Supervisors
This list shows the highest grossing Directors based on the worldwide box office of the movies they worked on.
Since we are still actively researching technical roles, we consider this chart to be in beta mode. The table includes data for movies in The Numbers database. While we make every effort to collect all available data, there are inevitably omissions and errors. Please help us by sending corrections to corrections@the-numbers.com.
| Rank | Name | Worldwide Box Office |
Movies | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | Chris Miller | $1,362,318,413 | 4 | $340,579,603 |
| 102 | Nancy Meyers | $1,351,805,585 | 6 | $225,300,931 |
| 103 | Brad Peyton | $1,327,281,393 | 8 | $165,910,174 |
| 104 | John Woo | $1,320,078,977 | 10 | $132,007,898 |
| 105 | Chris Sanders | $1,313,739,417 | 5 | $262,747,883 |
| 106 | Louis Leterrier | $1,312,224,366 | 7 | $187,460,624 |
| 107 | Oliver Stone | $1,308,226,494 | 19 | $68,854,026 |
| 108 | Lana Wachowski | $1,303,879,095 | 6 | $217,313,183 |
| 109 | Sylvester Stallone | $1,296,358,230 | 8 | $162,044,779 |
| 110 | Woody Allen | $1,291,403,660 | 47 | $27,476,674 |
| 111 | Shane Black | $1,289,483,499 | 6 | $214,913,917 |
| 112 | George Miller | $1,281,869,511 | 13 | $98,605,347 |
| 113 | Chris Buck | $1,274,234,980 | 2 | $637,117,490 |
| 114 | Jennifer Lee | $1,274,234,980 | 2 | $637,117,490 |
| 115 | Jan De Bont | $1,266,649,848 | 7 | $180,949,978 |
| 116 | Sydney Pollack | $1,262,738,808 | 17 | $74,278,753 |
| 117 | Tim Story | $1,253,340,724 | 11 | $113,940,066 |
| 118 | John McTiernan | $1,242,957,732 | 11 | $112,996,157 |
| 119 | Scott Derrickson | $1,230,822,401 | 5 | $246,164,480 |
| 120 | Phil Lord | $1,228,703,370 | 5 | $245,740,674 |
| 121 | Christopher Miller | $1,228,703,370 | 4 | $307,175,843 |
| 122 | Phillip Noyce | $1,226,860,697 | 13 | $94,373,900 |
| 123 | Peter Farrelly | $1,206,133,367 | 13 | $92,779,490 |
| 124 | Guillermo del Toro | $1,204,935,500 | 13 | $92,687,346 |
| 125 | Luc Besson | $1,202,284,866 | 15 | $80,152,324 |
| 126 | Jennifer Yuh Nelson | $1,183,451,930 | 3 | $394,483,977 |
| 127 | Robert Rodriguez | $1,181,782,080 | 23 | $51,381,830 |
| 128 | Roger Allers | $1,179,898,453 | 3 | $393,299,484 |
| 129 | Michael Apted | $1,164,288,036 | 23 | $50,621,219 |
| 130 | Antoine Fuqua | $1,163,696,747 | 17 | $68,452,750 |
| 131 | Joel Coen | $1,161,455,113 | 18 | $64,525,284 |
| 132 | Renny Harlin | $1,158,745,957 | 19 | $60,986,629 |
| 133 | Jon M. Chu | $1,152,522,115 | 9 | $128,058,013 |
| 134 | Peter Segal | $1,152,416,772 | 10 | $115,241,677 |
| 135 | Rob Letterman | $1,144,527,595 | 6 | $190,754,599 |
| 136 | Mel Gibson | $1,137,420,921 | 5 | $227,484,184 |
| 137 | Adam Shankman | $1,124,023,495 | 9 | $124,891,499 |
| 138 | Simon West | $1,121,690,834 | 12 | $93,474,236 |
| 139 | Gary Trousdale | $1,119,984,503 | 3 | $373,328,168 |
| 140 | Dean DeBlois | $1,109,457,262 | 3 | $369,819,087 |
| 141 | David Ayer | $1,097,836,595 | 8 | $137,229,574 |
| 142 | Joseph McGinty Nichol | $1,092,312,626 | 7 | $156,044,661 |
| 143 | Paul W.S. Anderson | $1,090,516,039 | 5 | $218,103,208 |
| 144 | David Silverman | $1,086,828,741 | 2 | $543,414,371 |
| 145 | Alan Taylor | $1,085,452,883 | 3 | $361,817,628 |
| 146 | Peyton Reed | $1,076,966,830 | 6 | $179,494,472 |
| 147 | Robert Schwentke | $1,059,145,533 | 7 | $151,306,505 |
| 148 | Paul Verhoeven | $1,053,053,960 | 12 | $87,754,497 |
| 149 | Lasse Hallström | $1,052,866,108 | 18 | $58,492,562 |
| 150 | Mike Nichols | $1,047,418,648 | 18 | $58,189,925 |
| 151 | Gary Ross | $1,043,550,161 | 6 | $173,925,027 |
| 152 | Michael Mann | $1,040,910,944 | 12 | $86,742,579 |
| 153 | Brian De Palma | $1,036,209,034 | 25 | $41,448,361 |
| 154 | Betty Thomas | $1,016,552,451 | 8 | $127,069,056 |
| 155 | Paul Feig | $1,003,774,392 | 7 | $143,396,342 |
| 156 | Jonathan Liebesman | $1,003,738,813 | 3 | $334,579,604 |
| 157 | Frank Coraci | $995,262,143 | 9 | $110,584,683 |
| 158 | Hayao Miyazaki | $986,362,068 | 10 | $98,636,207 |
| 159 | Chris Williams | $980,142,857 | 2 | $490,071,429 |
| 160 | Francis Ford Coppola | $965,456,398 | 22 | $43,884,382 |
| 161 | Tim Johnson | $962,692,384 | 6 | $160,448,731 |
| 162 | John Landis | $961,178,749 | 17 | $56,539,926 |
| 163 | Rob Reiner | $955,012,452 | 20 | $47,750,623 |
| 164 | Stephen Chow | $952,237,368 | 5 | $190,447,474 |
| 165 | Adrian Lyne | $948,596,188 | 9 | $105,399,576 |
| 166 | Andy Tennant | $948,294,499 | 10 | $94,829,450 |
| 167 | Tom Hooper | $943,735,333 | 4 | $235,933,833 |
| 168 | Andrew Davis | $935,717,764 | 11 | $85,065,251 |
| 169 | Christopher McQuarrie | $918,239,099 | 3 | $306,079,700 |
| 170 | Tyler Perry | $916,200,906 | 21 | $43,628,615 |
| 171 | Jerry Zucker | $907,747,053 | 6 | $151,291,176 |
| 172 | James Foley | $906,407,413 | 13 | $69,723,647 |
| 173 | Baz Luhrmann | $904,610,453 | 5 | $180,922,091 |
| 174 | Paul Weitz | $898,391,435 | 12 | $74,865,953 |
| 175 | Wes Craven | $894,345,429 | 18 | $49,685,857 |
| 176 | John Glen | $893,563,646 | 7 | $127,651,949 |
| 177 | Kevin Lima | $890,853,958 | 5 | $178,170,792 |
| 178 | Mark Waters | $888,970,153 | 12 | $74,080,846 |
| 179 | D.J. Caruso | $886,397,567 | 11 | $80,581,597 |
| 180 | Taika Waititi | $883,121,503 | 6 | $147,186,917 |
| 181 | Jon Watts | $882,440,494 | 4 | $220,610,124 |
| 182 | Patty Jenkins | $881,253,628 | 3 | $293,751,209 |
| 183 | Michael Thurmeier | $879,765,137 | 1 | $879,765,137 |
| 184 | Peter Weir | $874,083,734 | 11 | $79,462,158 |
| 185 | Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu | $873,525,792 | 6 | $145,587,632 |
| 186 | Nora Ephron | $872,934,231 | 7 | $124,704,890 |
| 187 | David O. Russell | $870,118,295 | 9 | $96,679,811 |
| 188 | Vicky Jenson | $863,729,837 | 2 | $431,864,919 |
| 189 | Wu Jing | $861,434,171 | 1 | $861,434,171 |
| 190 | Seth MacFarlane | $860,009,327 | 3 | $286,669,776 |
| 191 | Adam McKay | $857,100,559 | 9 | $95,233,395 |
| 192 | Genndy Tartakovsky | $849,257,210 | 3 | $283,085,737 |
| 193 | Chuck Russell | $845,697,230 | 8 | $105,712,154 |
| 194 | Andres Muschietti | $845,554,794 | 3 | $281,851,598 |
| 195 | John Badham | $825,101,546 | 14 | $58,935,825 |
| 196 | Brian Levant | $819,828,270 | 8 | $102,478,534 |
| 197 | Espen Sandberg | $812,269,990 | 2 | $406,134,995 |
| 198 | David Frankel | $812,002,208 | 10 | $81,200,221 |
| 199 | Nicholas Stoller | $811,986,006 | 6 | $135,331,001 |
| 200 | Len Wiseman | $803,270,454 | 4 | $200,817,614 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.
